Vietnam Timeline

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  • War Powers Act

    The War Powers Act, was an American emergency law that increased Federal power during World War II. put into law on December 18, 1941

  • Geneva Conference

    a conference which took place in Geneva, Switzerland, whose purpose was to attempt to find a way to unify Korea and discuss the possibility of restoring peace in Indochina.

  • Bay of Pigs

    The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful action by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba, with support and encouragement from the US government, in an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro.

  • Operation Chopper

    America's first combat missions against the Vietcong

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis

    The Cuban Missile Crisis was a thirteen-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other; the crisis occurred in October 1962, during the Cold War. In August 1962, after some unsuccessful operations by the US to overthrow the Cuban regime, the Cuban and Soviet governments secretly began to build bases in Cuba for a number of medium-range and intermediate-range ballistic nuclear missiles with the United States

  • Overthrow of Diem

    In the spring of 1963 Diem a catholic banned the traditional religious flags for Buddha’s Birthday, Then on Novemeber 1, 1963 the generals launched a military coup to overthrow him.In the spring of 1963 Diem a catholic banned the traditional religious flags for Buddha’s Birthday, Then on Novemeber 1, 1963 the generals launched a military coup to overthrow him.

  • Tonkin Resoultion

    The Tonkin Gulf Resolution was a joint resolution which the United States Congress passed.

  • Operation Rolling Thunder

    Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of a gradual and sustained US 2nd Air Division (later Seventh Air Force), US Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force (VNAF) aerial bombardment campaign conducted against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) from 2 March 1965 until 1 November 1968, during the Vietnam War.

  • Teach-Ins

    Faculty members and students at the University Of Michigan abandoned their classes and joined in a teach-in, and discussed the issues surrounding the war.

  • Battle Of Ia Drang

    The Battle of Ia Drang was the first major battle between regulars of the United States Army and regulars of the People's Army of Vietnam of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

  • Tet Offensive

    The Tet Offensive was a military campaign during the Vietnam War

  • Battle of Saigon

    The First Battle of Saigon, fought during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War, was the coordinated attack by communist forces, including both the North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong, against Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. March 7th 1968

  • Vietnamization

    Vietnamization was a policy of the Richard M. Nixon administration during the Vietnam War, as a result of the Viet Cong's Tet Offensive, to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops.

  • Operation Menu

    Operation Menu was the codename of a covert United States Strategic Air Command bombing campaign conducted in eastern Cambodia and Laos from 18 March 1969 until 26 May 1970

  • Kent State Massacre

    Kent State massacre-occurred at Kent State University involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970.

  • 26th Amendment

    The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution limited the minimum voting age to 18. It was adopted in response to student activism against the Vietnam War and to partially overrule the Supreme Court's decision in Oregon v. Mitchell. It was adopted on July 1, 1971. The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution limited the minimum voting age to 18. It was adopted in response to student activism against the Vietnam War and to partially overrule the Supreme Court's de

  • U.S. withdrawel of troops in Vietnam

    The accord provided for the end of hostilities, the withdrawal of U.S. and allied troops the return of prisoners of war, and the formation of a four-nation international control commission to ensure peace.

  • South Vietnam Surrenders

    Despite a peace treaty concluded in January 1973, fighting continued until the North Vietnamese army overran Saigon on April 30, 1975.